Rakuten Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
Updated 18 Apr 2026
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Rakuten with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 41.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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4rounds of interviews, 2 tech 2 behavior , last round will be about your fitting to the Japanese culture and the there are may be some foreigner interviewees and you need to behave as you love Japanese culture and something else
The process started with a recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment on data structures. Then two technical rounds covering system design and algorithms, ending with a behavioral interview with the hiring manager about teamwork.
ES->OA coding test leetcode easy to mid ->1st round basic tech interview and BQ->2nd round BQ all done by english
The second-round interviewer will review the remarks from the first-round interviewer.